Protest Poem Help?!?!?

Question

So i have to write a protest poem for english and I'm doing mine about like how celebrities get all the attention and money, while people like soldiers and doctors don't get as much appreciation as they should.. How should I write a poem about this?? Any ideas on what I could write? Thanks :)

Answer 1

start by picking a form (ie haiku, sonnet, free verse) I prefer the sonnet.

second decide a rhyme seem (aa,bb/abab/aabab/ ect) i like aa bb i.e "the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water SPOUT, down came the rain and washed the spider OUT"

then make words



why do we praise people that are only in for cash

why don't we praise the ones out there getting slash'



what about the doctor that saves your little girl

what about the soldier fighting for your world (i realize these don't exactly rhyme)



why the celeb with a million-dollar smile

Over the man who has seen the real trial?

why the music man with no soul

over the solider that paid the final toll?



why the hot guy that you will never meet

over the man who saved a boy from a horrid feat

why the druggie on TV

over the fireman or EMT



why the rapper without a giving heart

over the starving vet working minimum wage at walmart?



now you try and find about 5 more reasons and end with a summarizing couplet

Answer 2

Specific details are important in a poem. If you want to criticize the fact that "celebrities get all the attention and money," don't just use that general statement. Use specific examples. Make the issue come alive with vivid descriptions of situations in which celebrities get more wealth and fame than they deserve.



If you want to write about the appreciation that soldiers and doctors deserve but don't always get, show your readers specific scenes of soldiers and doctors doing admirable things.

Answer 3

I actually wrote a poem about something similar the other day



The teenage daughter of a rich family asks her parents to give up most of what they own in order to save a small village in africa. Arguing they don't need a garage full of cars on top of countless other trinkets. I made the image of a specific child in the village (with no name) playing by a crooked creek with a crooked tree at the beginning of the poem.



The family laughed at the daughter dismissing her as young and ignorant to how the world worked. They "deserved" there money because they worked sooo hard. The people leave the village and a couple weeks later the child who was playing by the creek starves to death in his bed.



30 years later the daughter, now a woman is suddenly sitting by a hospital bed, her son is dying from a disease which has no cure.



The only plant to cure the child grows at the bottom of a crooked tree which sits by a crooked creek where the child used to play...



I don't know if this helps you a lot, it's more of a reason why the wealth in this world needs to be more evenly distrubited for the good of all. And I'm not saying people don't deserve to make good money for doing hard jobs, but no one does enough to deserve 18billion dollars, or ever 100million dollars. But there are people in this world that have it.



But my hats off to Bill Gates for making the commitment to donate 90% of all his earnings for the rest of his life to education, starvation, and many other causes.

Answer 4

printed in an editorial in the parent, Thursday 15 March 2007 In 1841, AW's poem To The Sons Of Toil grow to be first printed in the unconventional newspaper the Northern action picture star, which had a circulate of fifty,000 and readership of a million/2 a million: How comes it that ye toil and sweat And undergo the oppressor's rod For merciless guy who dare to alter The equivalent regulations of God? How come that guy with tyrant heart Is led to to rule yet another, To rob, oppress and, leech-like, suck The existence's blood of a brother? Wilfred Owen wrote a brilliant style of poems protesting with regard to the cruelty of the 1st international conflict. you may additionally attempt Bob Dylan's or Joan Baez' music lyrics. they're additionally poetic

Answer 5

google it that always seems to help.